Work 67 her taste, and the children found in her their dearest and most enjoyable teacher. Her motherliness showed her the way to their hearts, and the pupils all loved her. Anna Whitlock's now famous co-educational school, one of the foremost in Stockholm, had opened, a few years previous, as a small private school for girls. In the autumn of 1880, Ellen Key became a teacher there, and also lived with Anna Whitlock until 1884, when she rented a room of her own on Villa Street, and later a small fiat on Valhalla Road, in order to be at least near the woods. Her pupils, now mature women, speak with gratitude and enthusiasm of her lessons w^hich often "reached heights of truly religious in- spiration," as one expresses it. "She instilled in us pure thoughts and high ideals," is the testimony of another. A third has pleasingly related her reminiscence of one of the lessons, which, for a special reason, became a lesson in personal purity. ' ' The hour was to have been devoted to a French poet, but on her way to school, Ellen Key had seen two of her pupils of the fifth class engaged in a lively flirtation with a couple of high-school boys, therefore she took the opportunity to speak on a subject that did not ordinarily belong to the school